Word: gate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside the gate, Karaolis' mother sat on a little chair. An air of smoldering enmity hung over the capital city of Nicosia. Shops shut tight in protest; workers left jobs. Men no longer sat at cafes but lounged sullenly at the curbs; they glared and spat as young British troopers rattled past in Land Rovers, their Bren guns trained outboard...
...money couldn't buy: the ex-champ, punch-drunk from his last big beating, dies in the hospital after the big boy takes him-just as Ernie Schaaf died after his 1933 fight with Carnera. Toro, a thousand headlines shout, is a killer! The story guarantees a great gate for the title fight...
...remembered what a disappointment he had been at Churchill Downs just a year ago, Leslie Combs's four-year-old champion, Nashua, seemed determined to let nothing stop him from winning the $55,200 Grey Lag Handicap at Jamaica. He stumbled coming out of the starting gate and fell to his knees. Another horse might have quit. Not Nashua. Under Jockey Ted Atkinson's urging, he came on to outlast a fast field and finished a head in front of Alfred...
...Marilyn began with an M too), and put her to work on her first part, in Scudda Hoo, Scudda Hay. Marilyn's part: "Hello." It was cut from the finished film. Nevertheless, Marilyn began to acquire some of a celebrity's mannerisms. She roared through the studio gate in her battered jalopy as though it were a Hispano-Suiza, and she was seldom less than an hour late...
Others Are in a Hurry. Marilyn's lateness has since become legendary. She once missed a plane because she stopped at the boarding gate to smear a little more lipstick on. Already half an hour late for a mass reception in her honor, she ducked into a ladies' room and was not seen again for 45 minutes. She was even two hours late for her own appendectomy. She went to a psychoanalyst about her lateness; a friend says it was no good because she always walked in when the hour was almost over...